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The hitting time of rainbow connection number two
In a graph with a given edge colouring, a rainbow path is a path all of
whose edges have distinct colours. The minimum number of colours required to
colour the edges of so that every pair of vertices is joined by at least
one rainbow path is called the rainbow connection number of the graph
. For any graph , . We will show that for the
Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph close to the diameter 2 threshold, with
high probability if then . In fact, further strengthening
this result, we will show that in the random graph process, with high
probability the hitting times of diameter 2 and of rainbow connection number 2
coincide.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure
Almost spanning subgraphs of random graphs after adversarial edge removal
Let Delta>1 be a fixed integer. We show that the random graph G(n,p) with
p>>(log n/n)^{1/Delta} is robust with respect to the containment of almost
spanning bipartite graphs H with maximum degree Delta and sublinear bandwidth
in the following sense: asymptotically almost surely, if an adversary deletes
arbitrary edges in G(n,p) such that each vertex loses less than half of its
neighbours, then the resulting graph still contains a copy of all such H.Comment: 46 pages, 6 figure
Computing Minimum Rainbow and Strong Rainbow Colorings of Block Graphs
A path in an edge-colored graph is rainbow if no two edges of it are
colored the same. The graph is rainbow-connected if there is a rainbow path
between every pair of vertices. If there is a rainbow shortest path between
every pair of vertices, the graph is strongly rainbow-connected. The
minimum number of colors needed to make rainbow-connected is known as the
rainbow connection number of , and is denoted by . Similarly,
the minimum number of colors needed to make strongly rainbow-connected is
known as the strong rainbow connection number of , and is denoted by
. We prove that for every , deciding whether
is NP-complete for split graphs, which form a subclass
of chordal graphs. Furthermore, there exists no polynomial-time algorithm for
approximating the strong rainbow connection number of an -vertex split graph
with a factor of for any unless P = NP. We
then turn our attention to block graphs, which also form a subclass of chordal
graphs. We determine the strong rainbow connection number of block graphs, and
show it can be computed in linear time. Finally, we provide a polynomial-time
characterization of bridgeless block graphs with rainbow connection number at
most 4.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Rainbow Connection of Random Regular Graphs
An edge colored graph is rainbow edge connected if any two vertices are
connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection of
a connected graph , denoted by , is the smallest number of colors
that are needed in order to make rainbow connected.
In this work we study the rainbow connection of the random -regular graph
of order , where is a constant. We prove that with
probability tending to one as goes to infinity the rainbow connection of
satisfies , which is best possible up to a hidden
constant
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